David de Groot's gallery

This morning we had a combined meetup at Fingal Heads for a dawn shoot. This is one of many shots of these rocks I took this morning. It was truly awe inspiring watching the waves rush into the gap and spray over the lower rocks on the left.An experience…

Today I ventured far up Cedar Creek, scrambling over rocks, through thorny plants and mud to reach a once very frequented waterhole and waterfall that has been closed to the public for about 10 years. This is the scene that greeted me when I got there.

We've had quite a bit of rain recently (9 inches over two days) - very unseasonable. Anyway, I trundled down to the creek a couple of days after the rain stopped and took a few shots, this being one of them.

Before the dawn this morning at the pre-PMA dawn shoot meetup.

Shot at an abandoned mental health facility. Somewhat retouched shot that originall had Glen's head on the right, and a distracting railing on the left. One of many where the background lights didn't go off for me, so a classic b&w look was the go.

Strobist Info: Nikon SB-28 into home made ring light (made by Ben Hew). 50mm lens at f/5, 1/200, iso 100. Melanie was a fantastic model (as were all our models), and the last of three our group shot.

Playing around with a red gelled flash in the background and ringlight foreground in a tunnel at Fort Lytton.

Testing out Ben's ringlight, I got in close with the macro lens and came away with this shot.

HMAS/HMQS Gayundah wreck at Woody Point, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.

As dawn broke, the wreck of the Gayundah was bathed in a wonderful warm light. It's flooded bowels protuding from the stilled bay in memory of what it once was. Flooded is for sale as a Framed, Mounted or Laminated print at RedBubble.

Our resident Carpet Python was on the driveway when we got home today, so I grabbed the camera with macro lens and dived out of the truck to grab some shots. He was about 8 inches away at this point. Eventually he got curious enough to almost lick the…

Xylotrupes Gideon. Found on my veranda (not dead). Lit by two flashes, one Vivitar 285HV to camera left, at 1/16th power. One Canon 188a to camera right and behind subject for cross-lighting.

Infrared Panorama taken from near Mt Samson Rd, Cedar Creek. 3 exposures (f/5.6, 1min 25sec, iso100) stitched with Hugin, red/blue channel swap done with Photoshop to obtain blue toned sky.

We arrived at Shorncliffe early and thus wandered up the pier to see what we could see. (RedBubble/Flickr/BrisbanePhotography.co m combined Meetup) Pre-Dawn Shorncliffe Pier is available as a framed, mounted or laminated print on RedBubble.

Shorncliffe foreshore. Goes with this picture by garbz.

Dawn from Shorncliffe Pier, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.

Spider Ant. Formicidae Leptomyrmex Formicinae. Not quite as sharp as I would have liked, but you still get the idea. This guy and a couple of his mates were carefully guarding the entrance to their nest so I didn't want to be seen as intruding too…

Myrmecia nigrocincta - Jumper Ant. These guys jump up to 10 cm and deliver a very painful sting with little provocation.